BADDAGINNIE/SWANPOOL NEWS
Newsletter No: 21
15th July 2016
COMING EVENTS:
Next week we are at the Baddaginnie Campus
July:
August:
Monday
Friday
Thursday
1st
12th
25th
School Council meeting at Baddaginnie Campus – need to provide dinner
Writing Workshop at Violet Town
Athletics Sports Day at Churchill Reserve Benalla
12th
School Council meeting Swanpool campus - need to provide dinner.
September:
Monday
Welcome to Term 3. We look forward to a busy productive term.
This week’s newsletter will be the last printed copy, unless you have returned the form
requesting ongoing paper copies. Please let us know your email address if you haven’t already done so.
BIG WRITER OF THE WEEK!
Last week of Term 2 our Big Writer of the Week was Ayden Phillips. Great work Ayden! This week’s Big
Writer of the Week is Jaxon McCarthy. Congratulations Jaxon!
PARENT/TEACHER INTERVIEWS:
Thank you to those parents who have returned their requests for a parent teacher interview. These will
be conducted over the next two weeks. If you have not yet returned your form, please do so as soon as
possible. We wish to chat with every family.
WRITERS’ FESTIVAL:
This year we have a whole school focus on writing. You will have seen this at our campus through the Big
Writes and other writing activities. We thought that as our children were doing so much wonderful
writing and working hard as writers, we needed to celebrate this.
Writers celebrate writing at Writers’ Festivals. This is exactly what we are planning to do.
On Wednesday 31st August 6pm-8pm, we will be holding The Peranbin Primary College Writer's Festival
at Violet Town. There will be lots more information to come but please lock in this date for now so that
you can come along to celebrate all the wonderful writers we have in our school.
Each student will be working towards producing a story and a poem to enter in the Festival. Each of the
Junior Class students have been given a book of poems. A big thank you to Ms Chapman for putting this
booklet together. Please enjoy reading the poems with you child, over and over. It is fun and will support
the work we will be doing in class.
HOMEWORK EXPECTATIONS FOR THE JUNIOR CLASS:
Junior students are expected to read their take home book, practise reading (and then writing) their
M100 words and practise their spelling words each night. The spelling words are part of a new program
we are following. Children practise their words each day in class and each night at home. Each Friday
they have a spelling test. On short weeks, like this week, spelling homework is not given.
Students are required to bring their take home reading bag (with diary and homework book inside it) to
school every day. Please remind your child to put it in their schoolbag each night after doing their
homework.
BALD ARCHYS:
We haven’t had a lot of response for volunteers to help with the Bald Archys. If you are able to help out
could you please return the attached forms to Pamela O’Connor. This is a great way to raise money for
our school.
BONFIRE NIGHT:
Due to the wet weather our Bonfire Night has been postponed until September.
REMINDER:
If you are not picking up your child from school, could you please contact us and advise us about who will
be collecting them.
2017 EROLMENTS:
We are now taking enrolments for next year so if you know anyone starting school next year please let
Roz or Eron know.
Enjoy the weekend,
Eron, Roz, Kate, Pauline and Barb
This week in the Junior Room we began our exploration of poetry by writing acrostic poems about SNOW.
Snow is white
Now it is time for a fire
Onto the bed
Warm
Snow is cold
Now it is Winter
On with a birthday
Wait until it is Summer
Soon it will be Spring
Now it’s cold
On with a hot choc
Winter is cold
Amber